English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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